The work will be performed within the research division STADIUS (’Stadius Centre for Dynamical Systems, Signal Processing, and Data Analytics’) at the Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT) at KU Leuven, Europe’s most innovative university (Reuters, 2018).

Overview. Control of pain remains a challenge for medicine. Melatonin, known for its role in circadian regulation, also has antioxidant and anti-inflammatory actions and has been suggested to have analgesic effects in a range of pain syndromes.

This PhD project with Dr Yeo will focus on understanding how we perform interception. Interceptive movements--such as catching a gently thrown ball, quickly grabbing a tilting cup to avoid spilling or even just handshaking someone--feel like trivial everyday tasks for us that seemingly look too simple to study.